Editorial appeared at European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery written by the leading pediatric cardiovascular surgeon Dr. de Leval (one of the founders of model congenital heart surgery) on our computational surgical planning studies

William Kowalski and Dr. Kerem Pekkan are contributing to this years American Physical Society - Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting on November 2013

Dr. Pekkan will serve as an Associate Editor for BMES Journal Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology and Artificial Organs from Fall 2013

New Course Bioinspired Engineering Design will be offered as a mini Spring 2014

William Kowalski received the best poster award for his invited Presentation at the McGowan Meeting.

Our group presented at the ASME Summer Bioengineering and European Society of Biomechanics Meetings, September 2013

Invited Talk at Unibersity of Florida on Embryonic Biomechanics

Congratulations for Dr.Prahlad Menon for defending his PhD thesis and becoming a faculty at CMU-SYSU Program, August 2013

Kerem Pekkan has been granted 2010 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award by the National Science Foundation for his proposal "CAREER: Internal Biofluid Dynamics in Embryonic Cardiovascular Development, Morphomechanics and Comparative Ontogeny"

Graduate and undergraduate reseach opportunities are available in our lab for exciting projects as of January 2010. Please contact Dr.Kerem Pekkan ASAP.

Next semester (Spring 2010) Biofluids Course will have field trips to the Pittsburgh Aviary in addition to the Aquarium and workshops/visits. This course is an equal balance of cardiovascular fluid mechanics and biomimetic swimming/flying.

Another outreach activity from our group. We were at ScienceTec at Carnegie Science Center with middle-school students (Pictures).

Flow fileds in embryonic hearts are anlyzed using computational fluid dynamics at 3 early stages in collaboration with Prof.Fotis Sotiropoulos group (Sneak preview slides) at the APS/DFD 2009.

Mikhail Lara and Onur Dur published in Artifical Organs

Our group contributed to the ASME Summer Bioengineering Meeting and BMES 2009 Pittsburgh with five posters and two presentations.

Onur Dur received the best poster award at 4th CMU-Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Research Symposium.

Kerem Pekkan will be teaching 42441 Cardiovascular Mechanics next semester, link for syllabus, December 3, 2008

Our group had a nice presentation on fluid dynamics of micro-propulsion (for intravascular robots) at 61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in collaboration with Prof. Sitti group, December 1, 2008

Mikail Lara won the competitive CMU-SURG grant and continues his undergraduate research studies

Onur Dur presented his recent studies on Fontan hemodynamics at the BMES conference through a travel award from Biomedical Engineering Society